For this Remembrance weekend, the Bury Bach Choir performs one of the most well-known choral works of the repertory: Mozart’s Requiem.

Mozart accepted the commission for the Requiem from a mysteriously anonymous patron in the summer of 1791. By the autumn Mozart was seriously ill and died on 5 December, having
completed only half the work and sketched some of the rest. In urgent need of the remainder of the commissioning fee, Mozart’s widow Constanze secretly invited her husband’s pupil, Franz Süssmayr, to
complete the score, which was then delivered to the patron with no mention of Süssmayr’s involvement! Despite the availability of several recent modern completions of Mozart’s Requiem,
Süssmayr’s version remains the one most familiar to audiences. For our special performance, we are joined by an outstanding quartet of soloists.

With the inclusion of Mozart’s beautiful and moving Ave verum corpus, and Bach’s Cantata No. 147, which includes the well-known ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’, this will be an occasion to
enjoy and to remember – don’t miss it.